Uhm, seriously?

Isn't there a new firmware or anything that fixes this, or at least some workaround? Surely this would cause a sh!tstorm of complaints, can't imagine Kobo would just let that happen...?
Essentially this would mean it's pretty much impossible to properly read PDFs on a Kobo Glo. If that's true, I will return it, as 99% of what I read is PDFs so this would make the entire thing obsolete to me